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"You get what you pay for," promised the original ads for this
comedy. It probably wasn't meant to refer to the film itself, a budget-minded
production from the Judd Apatow comedy assembly line, but it makes for an
appropriate thumbnail review. Owen Wilson is the title character, a
self-proclaimed Army special forces veteran (he's actually a deserter) hired by
a trio of high school freshmen (Nate Hartley, Troy Gentile and David Dorfman) as
a low-rent bodyguard. ...Read More
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| My Blueberry Nights |
The English language debut of Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar Wai ("In the
Mood for Love") is a road film starring Norah Jones (in her film debut) as a
spurned lover traveling through a movie-made America of damaged loves, broken
romances and wounded hearts. The script, co-written by Wong and American crime
novelist Lawrence Block, is more ... Read More
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| Mad Men: Season One |
It's 1960, a world of cigarettes, martinis and highballs, where successful
businessmen have wet bars in their offices, mothers don't worry about seat belts
for the kids, and married men treat flirtation with secretaries and waitresses
as a God-given right. Don Draper (Jon Hamm), the suave, successful, supremely
confident creative director ... Read More
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| Girl on the Bridge |
French everyman Daniel Auteuil and baby doll pop singer Vanessa
Paradis star in Patrice Leconte's rhapsodic fairy tale of a knife thrower and
his waiflike muse, a little girl lost who he saves from suicide and puts into
his act. With her sparkling eyes and curled lips, Paradis looks like she's
walked out of a fashion layout, but behind her facade ... Read More
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